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What is T Don Hutto?

The T Don Hutto facility held men, women (some pregnant), children, and infants from May 2006 to September 2009. Administered by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the country's largest for-profit corrections company, the center now holds around 500 adult women, many of whom are seeking asylum.

The Berks County Family Care Shelter still detains families. We continue to advocate for an end to family detention policy.

ICE champions the facility as a model for "civil" detention, despite patterns of sexual abuse and the continued detention of low-risk noncitizen women.

This blog is dedicated to providing information about Hutto and women's detention issues.

100 Events in 100 Days to End Family Detention

We did it! People like you came together and organized over 100 events to end family detention in Obama's first 100 days. Our online petition has over 55,000 signatures and counting! Our deepest gratitude!

Thanks to your support, ICE ended family detention at Hutto in September of 2009. The facility now holds exclusively women. We continue to advocate for their rights to due process, fair immigration proceedings, and non-penal custody.

Related Blogs and Links

America's Family Prisona short film chronicling the rise of Hutto and its impact on detainees and the local community

The Least of Thesea feature-length documentary that follows the implementation of family detention at Hutto, the lawsuit, and protests against the facility. Premiered at Austin's South-by-Southwest Film Festival in March of 2009.

A grassroots effort of pro-migrant, human-rights, and civil-rights bloggers and on-line activists dedicated to the enactment of meaningful immigration reform that is practical, rational, fair, and humane.

Homeland GitmosFollow an investigation of detainee treatment in American detention centers. An interactive website, complete with videos, detainee testimonies, photos, maps, and more.

Business of Detentionan exciting new interactive website examining the link between federal immigration policy and the corporations that are profiting off itDetention Watch Networka national coalition dedicated to tracking immigrant detention issues